Monthly Archives: May 2015

My girlfriend Grace Goon and I are celebrating our six-month dating anniversary today. We thought this would be an appropriate time to share how we met and started dating. We’ve color-coded who was writing at the time; it should be easy to figure out. Enjoy!

I’m currently visiting Caltech right now, my sixth visit since graduating almost 3 years ago. One of the nice things about this pattern of visiting twice a year is the opportunity to take a step outside of the daily grind and see how things have changed (or not changed) on a larger timescale.

For a two-week period recently (April 27 to May 11), I time-audited myself. That is, I recorded everything that I spent time on, in 5-minute increments. I’m happy to share with you what I learned from both the resulting data and the process.Read more of this post

Since restarting my blog 76 days ago, I’ve written 10 new blog posts, one per week except for Spring Break. At this point, I’d like to take a short moment to provide some updates on those posts.I also realize that my writing style is definitely rather long-winded, and you might not feel you have time to read everything in full detail. So I’m also taking this opportunity to write down paragraph-long summaries of each of my posts. If the paragraph intrigues you, read the full thing!Read more of this post